# Help the less fortunate?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-less-fortunate/79004>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 30, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-less-fortunate/79004 "2001-08-30T20:54:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-less-fortunate/79004/1 "2001-08-30T20:54:20Z")

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From News of the Weird:

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> Paul Morgan of Biloxi, Miss., has been busy the last few weeks lining up Web site viewers, at $20 each, to watch him slice off both his feet on Oct. 31 with a homemade guillotine. Morgan’s feet are nonfunctional because of an automobile accident, and he wants hydraulically operated prostheses to make him more mobile, but this is the only way he knows to raise the $200,000 to buy them. Although traffic on [CutOffMyFeet.com](http://CutOffMyFeet.com) is heavy, as of mid-August, Morgan had signed up only 10 viewers.

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**Author:** ![nooc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@nooc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nooc)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-less-fortunate/79004/2 "2001-08-30T20:56:23Z")

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I lived in Biloxi for a while. that doesn’t suprise me one bit. some of those people scared me.

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**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-less-fortunate/79004/3 "2001-08-30T21:02:28Z")

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So…he’s raised a grand total of $200. What’ll that buy?  
A toenail clipping? 😃